Image via WikipediaEveryone who has Pulmonary hypertension has also got right sided heart failure. This is because the PH as put pressure on the heart to pump harder to get oxygen through to the rest of the body and this as caused the heart to stop functioning as it should.Heart failure are two words that can panic people when they are told they have it by a doctor but it is not as bad as it sounds. Heart failure does not mean your heart is about to fail it just means that your heart is not working as good as it should be.
The symptoms of heart failure are basically swelling in the legs and ankles, tiredness and breathlessness.The illustration shows the symptoms of heart failure in detail.Doctors tend to control the swelling by diuretics which help you get rid of the fluid causing the swelling.You can also help this yourself by having a low salt diet and restricting your fluid intake.
The goal of the doctors is to stop the heart failure getting worse. By treating the condition causing the heart failure like for instance PH and encouraging the patient to eat a healthy diet, get exercise and with drugs like diuretics doctors are pretty successful in doing this now and the prognosis for most heart failure patients is not as bad as it use to be in the past.
The major thing to remember is that having heart failure is not a death sentence its just another health problem that you with the help of your doctors can control and overcome.
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